622 A Monograph of Culicidae. 



Sabethinus aurescens. Lutz MS. (nom. nudum). 



Head deep brown, with violet hues in front; palpi and 

 proboscis deep brown with green reflections. Thorax black, with 

 dense apple-green metallic scales ; coppery ones on the prothoracic 

 lobes. Abdomen with deep blue and green scales and basal 

 lateral silvery to golden spots and pale venter. Legs deep brown 

 with purple and coppery sheen. Wings with the fork-cells 

 relatively shorter than in the former species. 



$ . Head deep brown with flat brown scales behind, some 

 violet ones in front and a few coppery to golden ones along the 

 eyes; clypeus and basal segments of antennae frosty-grey, the 

 latter with small black hairs, rest of antennae deep brown ; palpi 

 and proboscis deep brown with metallic deep green reflections and 

 some traces of violet. 



Thorax deep black, clothed with irregular short flat dense 

 apple-green metallic scales, particularly dense over the roots of 

 the wings and on and in front of the scutellum ; chaetae bright 

 golden-brown ; prothoracic lobes with brassy mauve and creamy 

 flat scales ; pleurae ochreous with patches of flat white scales. 



Abdomen with deep blue and green metallic scales and basal 

 lateral pale golden to almost silver patches and pale scaled venter, 

 apical hairs black. 



Legs deep brown with metallic bronze reflections ; ungues 

 equal and simple (?). 



Wings with the fork-cells long, the first sub-marginal much 

 longer and slightly narrower than the second posterior cell, its 

 base a little nearer the base of the wing, its stem about one-third 



Fig. 288. 

 Wing of Sabethinus aurezcens. 9 • Lutz. 



the length of the cell ; stem of the second posterior two-thirds the 

 length of the cell ; cross-veins all close together, the mid slightly 

 nearer the apex of the wing than the other two. 

 Length. — 5 mm. 



